Leo is waiting for me to throw his stick:

The girls, Daisy & Rose, are just hanging out:

I take it to mean Democrats who are not Democratic Socialists, but it’s an odd way of saying it.

Maybe they are including people who aren’t registered as Democrats but tend to vote for them?

They shouldn’t, but when has that ever stopped them? The (stupid) assumption they make is that the computer wouldn’t make a mistake, so they assume it found the exact person they were looking for.

Judges shouldn’t be issuing warrants solely because a face matching algorithm found someone who looked like the suspect, but they are probably as clueless about the technology as the police are.

I was listening to a podcast episode that was talking about AI-based face recognition and how it’s being used.

The way it works, you take your shitty, off-center still from a security camera showing the suspect at an odd angle, and you feed it into the AI. The AI searches all the images it has access to to find people who look like the suspect.

Police take the results, pick up the person from that list that they think is the closest match, then they put them in front of a line-up, and ask the witnesses to identify the person who committed the crime. Once they have a positive ID, they use that to charge and convict the suspect.

The problem, of course, is that the AI is just finding people who look like the suspect. If they use the tool correctly, they would do some investigation to determine if there is any chance that anyone identified by the AI could actually be the suspect. Instead, they treat it like the AI identified the specific person they were looking for.

One example they used was a woman who was arrested. They arrested her despite the woman in the video not being pregnant and the woman they arrested being about 8 months along.

Nothing says no crime was committed like using sexual misconduct allegations against the chief prosecutor to try and delay an arrest warrant.

Get out of here with your fascist-commie bullshit!

/s

A few years after I got hired my boss mentioned that they had hundreds of applicants, but my resume stood out because I included a custom cover letter.

This was my first job after I graduated college in 1992. That was in the days when you could pick up a newspaper and see job listings in the classified section.

I admitted to my boss that the cover letter was a mail merge document. I had created a spreadsheet listing the name, address, etc. for dozens of positions from the classifieds and added one sentence specific to the job for every one.

The job was in IT, so it probably turns out that faking a custom cover letter counted as proof of qualifications.

Every job I’ve had since then was due to networking that all ties back to that first job.

Here there are no stupid questions, just stupid answers.

Well clearly, for those people the only fair way to handle it is to default to a vote weight of 1.0

Others have answered, but you reminded me of some disturbing audio that I had heard.

It’s audio from Reagan’s white house press conferences when a reporter asked for comments about the growing AIDS crisis. It’s disturbing because it shows how casually people joked about gay men dying.

It’s worth listening to. It both shows how far we’ve come and also shows how important it is to not lose any ground in the fight to protect marginalized groups.

When Aids Was Funny

I think he may be onto something.

Perhaps there’s some way to tie the weight of your vote to the ratio of taxes paid divided by wealth?

So, if you have billions in assets+wages, but pay less taxes than a guy earning minimum wage, your vote would essentially be completely ignored.

I wrote HTML in EDIT, but my first webserver ran on an OpenVMS Alpha workstation.

Merely dozens?

a fast track to getting brought in front of the Hague

There is no “fast track” to the Hague for any U.S. administration.

There are only two ways that could happen:

1. The U.S. people could come to their senses

2. WW3

I had a friend who was married, but he didn’t live with his wife. They had a son together, and she had a son from a prior marriage.

He stayed married to her, but they lived separately. He said it was so she could stay on his health insurance. He also gave her money for her rent.

For several years they lived in different states. He’d take two weeks off from work to visit her every year. He’d spend one week with her, then spend the second week recovering from visiting with her.

To my knowledge he never went on so much as a date with any other woman and he showed absolutely no interest in cheating on his wife or even divorcing her. His attitude seemed to be that one woman was more than enough.

men are more likely than women to associate with antisocial peers.

They haven’t met some of my wife’s (former) friends. She seems to attract crazy people (me included).

Luckily my friends are cool and they like her more than they like me anyway.

Apparently, you’re only supposed to interfere with trade if the target has hurt the pedo-in-chief’s feelings.

Looks like if you drive down the highway to the next exit, there’s a McDonald’s. Also a Wendy’s, a Hardee’s, and two gas stations.

Only the McDonald’s has an obnoxious sign poking up into the atmosphere.

You have to understand, President Obama made a joke about President Pedo, and everyone laughed.

President Obama also made deal with Iran to ensure that they wouldn’t develop nuclear weapons.

President Pedo wants to convince everyone that he’s better than President Obama, so he trashed Obama’s deal, and now he has to use the U.S. military to kill Iranian children so everyone knows how tough he is.

I’m ok with recording a movie or show from TV. That was commonly accepted in the VCR days, so I see no reason it shouldn’t be acceptable today. I have a couple things in my media server that were transferred from a Tivo years ago.

However, I generally prefer to rip movies from DVD or Blu-ray to avoid the breaks, strange edits, and channel logos that get put on broadcasts.

I can only think of one thing I really pirated, and that was Song of the South. The only way to get a copy was Pirate Bay. Disney won’t release it and won’t go after anyone who pirates it, because they want to pretend it doesn’t exist. However, it was an important movie historically for it’s early integration of animation with live action.

The suggestion that slaves freed after the Civil War were happy to remain in a position of subservience to the plantation owners is distasteful to say the least. Apart from that, the writing and acting in the live action sequences is so terrible that it’s not worth keeping. I wanted to see it once, but I discarded it after.